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A/N: So I got more reviews than usually, thank you! So I have one think i want, actually two, to ask you. Please tell me what you think! So question one: Should Vinnie or Embry Embry tell first 'i love you'. Did you understand my question? I hope you did, 'cause this sounds a bit confusing to me :) The second question: Who should get married at the next summer? Any suggestions?
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Chapter 10 (Vinnie's POV)
Wow. That was my only thought when Embry told me he had forgotten to do something. Despite the fact that I had never kissed a guy before, I just knew what he was about to do. I felt a tiny bit scared, but that disappeared very quickly. My fear replaced with desire, hope and excitement. All I wanted to do was to press my lips against Embrys and just feel his body pressed into mine. The kiss was the best thing I had ever experienced. A couple of weeks ago, I thought that there was nothing better that chocolate chip cookies with butterscotch. Boy, had I been wrong. Embrys lips tasted a million times better than cookies. I've never kissed a guy before, so I can't say that I know what I'm talking about, but in my opinion, Embry was a great kisser.
I was so caught up with the brilliant kiss, that Embry was the one who had to remember my curfews. I never wanted to let Embry go, but I knew I had to. My father never was one of the most approval parents, and I knew he wouldn't understand that I was late because of kissing the greatest gut in the whole planet. I think that Mom would have understood and if my Dad wouldn't have been home this evening, I would have been late at least an hour.
I was actually ten minutes late, but it was so worth it. My Dad was strict, but he wouldn't mind that much about a couple of minutes, especially when he had no idea who I had been with. It wasn't fair that I hid things from Dad, but he was a lot happier when he didn't know. I had told him about my dates with Embry and he wasn't happy. He wasn't that keen on me dating and after Dillon went and spilled out the description of Embry that I had given, he had sulked. My Dad was fair enough to let me date him. He had always said that the same rules applied to me and my brothers. And since he had let them date, he had to let me too. Dad was a man of his words. Once he said or decided something, there was no turning back.
Mom was sitting alone in the kitchen, drinking her warm milk again. I figured from the sounds of the TV, that Dad was watching the news.
"Hello Vinnie. How was work?" Mom asked when she lifted her gaze from the novel she was currently reading. I had a stupid smile on my face that I knew would betray me. Still I decided to give her the normal answer I gave her every night when I got home from work.
"Boring as usual. No one slaughtered my customers. What a shame." Usually I said this with a dark voice and Mom would burst into laughter. Now she watched me suspiciously.
"Okay, spill it out. What happened?" Mom knew me well, or maybe I was just too easy to read. I sighed and sat down before answering.
"Well, Embry came to visit me." I said and took a cookie from a basket on the table. Mom lifted her brows but smiled happily.
"How nice of him. But I hope he didn't distract you from your job." I laughed a little.
"Mom, my job is dead boring and there aren't many customers on Thursday evening."
"Oh I know. I was just teasing you a little. So tell me Vinnie. Is he your boyfriend now?" I swallowed the cookie loudly. Yes, that was a very good question. It would have been nicer if I had the answer. I really hoped that Embry would be my boyfriend. He had kissed me. But I didn't know if he would want to consider me as his girlfriend after two real dates. I was scared to ask him about it. I just wanted to wait and see.
"No. We've been out two times. It's kind of early." I murmured.
"Yes that may be." Mom admitted slowly. "I'll join your father now. Sleep tight honey." She rose and kissed me on the cheek.
"Good night Mom." I called after her. Now that she had mentioned the boyfriend thing, I surely would not get any sleep tonight. I wished that I was in Embry's arms now.
"Please Vinnie, tell me every thing!" Julie pleaded. I just rolled my eyes and tried to focus on my Math problems. Stupid as I was, I had told Julie about Embry's surprise visit. I regretted it deeply. I had no desire for any kind of girl talk, that just wasn't me and Julie knew that. I just happened to have the most curious person as a best friend.
"Did he kiss you?" Julie tried to again to get something out of me. I stiffened after I heard her question. My reactions were my betrayal again. Julie stared at me, looking completely numb. Then she broke her gaze and started clapping her hands together. People turned to look back to see what was going on. When they saw it was just me and Julie, nothing interesting enough to look at, they turned away.
"Oh, I'm so happy for you!" She yelped and hugged me. "Was he any good? I bet he was. Anyone who looks like he does has to have great kissing skills…" Julie was clearly waiting an answer. I sighed deeply, knowing that I had no other choice that to answer.
"You know I have no experience what so ever, but yes, I think he was good. Really good…" I trailed off and turned to the Math problems again.
"I'm so jealous of you." Julie whined and I had to laugh.
"Julie, you have had dozens of boyfriends. You kissed every one of them. God knows what else you did with them…" Julie was a boy magnet. Even if everyone at school considered Russell, Julie and I freaks, Julie could still wrap all the guys around her little finger and make them do what ever she wanted. I guess that was her talent.
"I know I've had a bunch of boyfriends." Julie said to me like I was stupid. I rolled my eyes.
"Then why are you jealous?" I couldn't see any rational reason for that. Julie was the one of us that got all the boys. I sometimes felt a bit jealous about her boyfriends, but that passed.
"Because, what you have, is the real deal. I just had some two weeks stuff. It was just kissing touching and having fun. You have more." This time I got to look her like she was crazy. I had no idea what she meant.
"What the hell are you talking about? Why do I have more that you've had? And what's what thing about the real deal?" Julie sighed and took my hand in hers to calm me down.
"I'm just saying that this, what you've got right now, will last. There's more than just touching and kissing in this. There will be real emotions like love and devotion." She was crazy. Should I sign her in to the mental hospital?
"You're crazy Julie. I've been out with him a couple of times. It may well be that this won't last even till Saturday. I like him very much, but you can't ever know. I don't know him yet."
"But Vinnie, you said to me after your second date, that it felt like you had known him forever. I remember how you were worried about liking him too much in such a short period of time. I know you're worried. But I think this will be something great, something big. I have this hunch, and the way I saw him looking at you… It was like he was already in love with you Vinnie. And I know you're not far from that either. Vinnie you're just the kind of person that when you fall in love, you never fall out of it. You're just so constant, when you decide something, you stick on it. You have to believe I'm right, for this time even. I just know there's something in you two." I looked deeply into Julies eyes and saw the truth. She believed every word she had said. She had practically said that I would live happily ever after with Embry. Her words made me freak out. But I was even more freaked out because that didn't sound so bad. Spending the rest of my life with Embry. What had gotten into me?
I tried to make myself forget the things that Julie had said. Still they haunted me all day long. Russell was puzzled because of my strange behavior during the day. I had been positive that Julie would tell him, but she didn't. For the first time she hid something from Russell. I really appreciated that. I wanted time to think. But the problem was that I had nothing to think about. I liked Embry a lot more that I should have, I wanted to be with him every second, I wanted to feel him touch me and I wanted to smell that delicious scent of his. That was it. Those things were facts and there really was nothing to think about.
I had finally calmed down once I was out of the school. I had wanted to call Embry the whole day as I had promised. Knowing that I was finally alone and he was out of school too; I picked up my cell and dialed. It rang just once before he answered. It was very funny that he had waited so eagerly my call.
"Vinnie?" He questioned though I knew he was one hundred per cent sure that it was me.
"Hi handsome." I greeted him. He laughed his booming laugh.
"So only you're allowed to say corny things like that?" I smiled widely, trying hard not to laugh.
"It was just a greeting. And yes, as a matter of fact I am." I could hear another laugh from Embry's side of the line. Was some one listening to us? I heard Embry mutter something so low that I had no chance to hear it at all.
"Do you mind saying hello to Quil?" He asked after he stopped murmuring. I frowned.
"Your friend Quil?" I asked suspiciously. Why on earth he wanted to speak with me.
"Yes. Honestly, how many Quils have you heard of?" I heard a quite laugh and then 'ouch' from someone, probably Embry.
"Okay, I'll talk to him." What had I gotten myself into?
"Hello Vinnie!" A low voice said. It was definitely lower that Embrys, but there where similarities.
"Hi, um, Quil?" He laughed loudly. It was the same one I heard before.
"I thought you were sassy. That's what Embry, um, told us." I wondered why he hesitated with the word told, but I didn't pay that much attention to it.
"Oh, is that what he told you Quil? Just that you know, I think I can be "sassy" when I want to. This just happens to be the first time we've spoke, so I was trying to be nice, Quil."
"Don't you start with the name, Vinnie the Pooh." He murmured and then yelped from the pain. I could only guess where that came from.
"So you think I have no brain and I'm fat?" I tried to sound angry, but if was difficult since I found the situation hilarious.
"Oh no! Nothing like that. I heard that you're quite skinny…" Embry sure had told his friends a lot about me. I didn't mind as long as he was telling the truth. His friends seem nice anyway.
"Did you have a certain reason you wanted to talk to me? If you don't so can you please put Embry back on?" He laughed again and muttered something about Embry being the popular one.
"Yes I did actually. I just wanted to ask what your plans are for Saturday."
"If you wanted to ask me out, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I already have a date." I joked.
"Yeah, yeah very funny. I just wanted to make sure you're going to meet us all."
"How many people are we talking about exactly?"
"Just couple of mine and Embry's friends." I did want to see his friends, they seemed so nice. And it was only fair since Embry had already met mine.
"Okay, I'll come. I make sure Embry brings me to see you."
"Excellent! I'll see on Saturday then. I'll put Embry back on the phone. Bye Vinnie!"
"Bye Quil." Embry seemed to have some bouncy friends. It made me feel good about myself that Quil and possibly Embrys other friends too were eager to see me. I knew that Quil would be the kind of a guy I would like as a friend. He seemed a lot like me. But meeting Embry's friends scared me a bit. I was worried that they wouldn't like me. That was unusual for me, to care what other people thought of me. Being with Embry had brought out this new side of me. Usually I only cared about the opinions of Julie, Russell and my family. Since Embry had become such an important part of my life, I had begun to think about some things differently. Embry's opinion meant a lot to me.
"Were you permanently traumatized?" Embry asked when he returned to the phone. My heart raced when I heard his voice.
"No, Quil is nice, a lot like me." I said, speaking truth. Embry snorted.
"You're not as annoying as Quil. As a matter of fact, you're not annoying at all." Embry praised me. I uttered a small laughter.
"Embry, you're a rotten liar. Or alternatively you think too highly of me."
"I'm not lying, I'm telling the absolute truth. You're the greatest person I've ever met Vinnie. And I'm going to tell that to you every day." Embry vowed. I was going to be crazy. First my Mom had talked about the boyfriend thing, then Julie had stirred up my thoughts up with her crazy talk and now Embry was talking about me like that. I didn't respond to Embry's words, so the line was silent for a while.
"Vinnie, are you there?" Embry asked with an uneasy voice. Why did he always worry so much about me? Never ever had anyone worried so much about me in my entire life, as Embry had worried just this passed week.
"Of course I'm here. Where would I go?" I asked and tried to sound normal. Embry's words mixed with Julie's conclusions made me think about just how much I did care about Embry. The answer was simple; way too much. I know that this should have scared me to death, but it didn't. My common sense had disappeared somewhere a long the way getting known to Embry. And honestly, I didn't give a damn.
"Oh, I just get paranoid sometimes." I could hear the smile in Embrys words and that made me smile too. I glared the clock and groaned.
"I'm sorry Embry; I've got to go now. I have to go to work…" I sighed and so did Embry. Neither of us was happy about the interruption.
"Okay. I'll call you tomorrow so we can settle the time when I'm picking you up."
"Yeah, I'll wait for your call." I said goodbye to Embry and hung up. I felt sad, because I just wanted to be with him. I didn't want to let him go, but I just had to go to work. Well, I would just dream about Embry the whole time. Saturday morning would probably go well since I was going to visit my cousin Kayla. I hadn't seen her for a while and I missed her, we were very close.
Kayla is the daughter of my Moms sister Lena. Aunt Lena is nice but a little snobbish. She didn't look a day older than forty but in reality she was already fifty. Some nip and tuck here and there had made her look young. My Mom didn't approve of that, but she kept her mouth shut. Aunt Lena's husband, my Uncle Greg was a chubby man with reddish cheeks. He was usually cheerful, especially when he had taken a couple of shots, which he did often. I didn't like Kayla's parents, my uncle and aunt, but Kayla was great. I had always liked her, even when we were so different. Kayla was sixteen now and lived in Forks. She was a girly girl, always wore pink clothes and lots of dresses. Kayla was the only child and Uncle Greg spoiled her with all kind of things. Me and Kayla were nothing a like. Our only similarity was our eyes. Our grey eyes run down in Moms family and Kayla and I both had them. Kayla had fair skin which never got tan. Her dirty light brown hair was short and she was only 5'2''. Our personalities didn't match; I was this sarcastic pessimistic person and Kayla was cheerful and optimistic. I have no idea how I got along with her, I just did. Normally people like Kayla, the popular kids, can't stand me. And I couldn't stand them. Maybe I coped with her just because we were family, I don't know. Despite all our differences I loved Kayla and I had missed her. The last time we had saw each other was the previous summer.
So, ten am on Saturday morning I got in my car on and drove to Forks. By eleven o'clock I was in front of Kayla's house. The house had two stories and it was painted a beige color. Aunt Lena enjoyed gardening unlike my Mom and the garden was full of colorful flowers. I looked at the house for a while, remembering the last time I had visited. I didn't get to think too far. The front door opened and I saw my aunt stepping put of the house. Her skin looked abnormal when she smiled. All the surgeries had made her look weird. I was sure she had got Botox injections just a couple days ago. I tried to smile to Aunt Lena and then stepped out of the car.
Aunt Lena walked bouncily towards me. She held me in a stern embrace.
"Winona, it is so good to see you. I am so glad you came to visit us. Kayla and I have missed you." Aunt Lena prattled cheerfully.
"Yeah, I'm glad too. I missed you guys. And I would appreciate it Aunt Lena if you would just call me Vinnie like everyone else." I said and stepped a couple of steps back to get my Aunt's hands of off me.
"None sense! Your mother named you Winona Calla Hughes, and that's the name I'm going to call you." I took a deep sight but left it there. I knew there was no point arguing. Everyone expect Aunt Lena had called me Vinnie as long as I could remember. Aunt Lena was a stubborn woman; if she wanted to call me Winona, then she would.
"So Winona, do you want some coffee? Or do you drink tea?" My aunt asked and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"Tea would be nice. Is Kayla inside?" I wanted to get rid of Aunt Lena as soon as it was possible. There was the required tea time in every visit. Aunt Lena always wanted to know what was going on in other people lives.
"Yes, Kayla is taking the blueberry pie put of the oven." I nodded to my aunt and stepped inside of the house. I could already smell the delicious scent of the pie that made my mouth water. The house had remained untouched since my last visit. The decoration was very art deco and it fitted into Aunt Lenas style perfectly. The walls were white and some black and white pictures where hung on the walls. The house was wide, and looked very sterile. It was one of those homes where I was afraid to touch anything because I was afraid it would get dirty. The kitchen was so clean, that I would never have believed that someone had baked a pie in there. Kayla stood there with a pink apron on. That reminded me off my work uniform. I was happy to see Kayla. She hadn't changed that much, just looked a little older.
"Vinnie!" Kayla cried and run to hug me. I hugged her back tightly. Kayla uttered a little laughter.
"Oh right, you never were one of those touchy feely girls." She said with a smile and made me laugh.
"Yeah you got that one right." Kayla asked me to sit down and help myself some tea and pie. My Aunt talked mainly to herself and asked about Dillon's and Stephan's studies. I answered as well as I could. Kayla was quite and let her mother talk. After Aunt Lenas long story about how she had started taking yoga classes, Kayla finally opened her mouth.
"So Vinnie, tell me, do you finally have a boyfriend?" I stiffened. That was a question I had not expected. Aunt Lena had asked me about it years earlier, but had stopped because I never had any interest towards the opposite sex. Kayla and Aunt Lena lifted their brows and looked at me curiously.
"Well, I'm dating this one guy…" I murmured and stuffed more pie into my mouth.
"Tell us more Winona! Who is this young gentleman?" I was so embarrassed about my aunt's choice of words. Gentleman just didn't fit into Embrys imago.
"His name is Embry Call and he lives in La Push." I gave them the basic facts and hoped that they wouldn't ask more about Embry. How terribly wrong I was…
"Is he one of the Quilautes? I think I've saw him once at First Beach when my friends and I were partying there. I recall that he and his friends were huge! Good looking though…" Kayla said and looked at me with a totally different attitude in her eyes.
"Is this true Winona? How old is this Embry Call? Do your parents know about this?"
"Yes Aunt Lena, this is true. Embry is a senior like me. And my parents do know about this. Actually, I'm going on a date with him after I leave here." Okay the last comment was just to shock my aunt a little bit more. I couldn't stand her nosiness. Kayla and Aunt Lena just sat quietly on their chairs and looked at me. They were puzzled about the fact that I, Winona Calla Hughes, was dating a guy. What a shock.
The rest of my visit went well. Kayla and Aunt Lena dropped the boyfriend subject and I was happy about it. But still, during the whole visit, I wanted Embry to call me. At twelve thirty he finally called. He asked me if I could drive to the Forks high school, he would pick me from there. I agreed to this and promised to be there at exactly one o'clock. At twelve forty-five, I said goodbyes to my aunt and Kayla. It had only been a day since I'd seen Embry, but I missed him so much that my heart ached. I had thought about Embry so much, that I had almost totally forgotten about his secret. What was it? And was he going to share it with me today?
A/N: Wghat did you think? Please review! And please tell me your opinion to the questions I asked , I can't decide! Thanks to my wonderful beta, charmed ireland .net/u/501496/